Election statement: EASA has played an important part in my professional life since I joined the organization in 1993 as a research fellow in the Ernest Gellner ́s Centre for the Study of Nationalism in Prague. I currently direct the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences and teach anthropology at Charles University in Prague and the University of Pardubice. I am the President of the Czech Association for Social Anthropology and the co-ordinator of the UNESCO MOST (Management of Social Transformation) programme in the Czech Republic. In my research I focus on migrations, the Roma and transformations in Central Europe and the Balkans. If I am elected to the Executive Committee, I will be committed to fulfilling EASA’s mission in several key areas. 1. I will strengthen communication between anthropologists from different European countries and disciplinary traditions. 2. I will support especially early-career anthropologists and their role in EASA. 3. I will work toward enhancing better visibility of social anthropology in the wider public and political arena by bringing the anthropological vision to impact decision making processes in Europe.
Nominated and supported by Michał Buchowski (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland and European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder, Germany) and Hana Cervinkova (University of Lower Silesia, Wroclaw, Poland and the Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic)